Bryan Rosenthal, the Vallejo man accused of trying to allegedly meet with and rape a 14-year-old girl in San Francisco last week, is no longer a board member on a local political group, officials with Voices of Vallejo confirmed to the Times-Herald.

“Voices of Vallejo is aware that a member of our board has been charged with a very serious crime,” the prepared statement reads. “At our request, he has resigned from the board, effective immediately, pending resolution of the charges.

“These charges came as a complete surprise to us all and we are deeply troubled at the thought that people have been harmed,” the statement adds.

Rosenthal, 45, who is the also the founder and president of the Vallejo-based Cann-I-Dream children’s charity had arranged through social media to meet with and have sexual contact with the girl, according to a Sept. 14 post on the San Francisco Police Department’s Facebook page.

Instead, Rosenthal was met by police investigators. He was arrested and booked in the San Francisco County Jail for numerous crimes, including arranging a meeting with a minor for sexual contact, going to an arranged meeting with a minor for sexual contact, sending harmful material to a minor, communication with a minor for the purpose of engaging in lewd and lascivious behavior, possession of child pornography and producing child pornography, the same SFPD Facebook post states.

While in custody, a search of his cell phone revealed Rosenthal was having sexually explicit conversations with other underage minors, police said.

They didn’t say how many other minors might be involved. However, according to San Francisco police, Rosenthal had plans to meet with those children as well.

Rosenthal founded the Cann-I-Dream Foundation in 2014, a nonprofit designed to raise money, much from the city’s cannabis industry, to help children, and fund additional community programs in Vallejo and the Bay Area.

The foundation’s website stated that the group raises money to “make a better life for our children, thus creating a world full of abundance, love, and hope for our future.”

Hours after news broke on Thursday about Rosenthal’s arrest the foundation’s website was taken down.

In addition, concern spread over social media regarding Rosenthal’s confirmed work with at least two Vallejo elementary schools over the past few years.

Vallejo City Unified School District Superintendent Adam Clark couldn’t be reached before deadline about whether Rosenthal had been on school grounds recently.

Vallejo police Capt. Lee Horton said he was unaware of any local investigations involving Rosenthal.

The Voices of Vallejo group also decided to use its statement about Rosenthal as a means to discuss its mission statement and political enemies.

Calling Rosenthal’s arrest an “upheaval,” the group further said it would “continue to work toward our mission — forming a political coalition unified around a forward-looking vision for our city that will serve all its people by promoting progressive ideas, and calling out special interests and corruption.

“We realize that honest discussion about special interests is not popular with those special interests. We consider their attacks against us a measure of the success of our work and we will not be deterred.”

Paula Bauer said she is serving as Voices of Vallejo’s temporary spokesperson until the group’s founders Jeff Carlson and Brenda Crawford return from separate trips.

Anyone who has information about the case, and/or who believes he or she may have been a victim or had suspicious contact with Rosenthal, can call the San Francisco Police Department Special Victims Unit at (415) 558-9225. Callers may remain anonymous.